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Together AI expanded its fine-tuning platform on September 11, 2026, adding 17 open-weight models, live experiment tracking, a Mixture-of-Experts-specific LoRA technique, and training price cuts reaching 70% on select models.
Nvidia is reportedly close to acquiring Hugging Face, but reports disagree on whether a $12.9 billion agreement has been signed. The potential deal would connect Nvidia’s compute stack with a central distribution layer for open AI.
Weaviate 1.39 moves Boost and MMR diversity selection into general availability while previewing 4-bit Rotational Quantization and an experimental REST search interface. The release also automates HNSW snapshots and expands browser access through gRPC-Web.
IBM’s Granite 4.2 is its first reasoning-focused LLM family, trained on ~15T tokens and refined through a multi-stage reinforcement learning pipeline that teaches the 8B and 30B models to act as coding, terminal, and search agents.
Hugging Face is reportedly evaluating acquisition interest at a valuation of at least $13 billion. No buyer or agreement has been disclosed, while the company’s community obligations may complicate any sale.
Meta released its new open-weight Glimmer AI model alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg advocating for open AI. Meanwhile, a $250M talent deal highlights the volatile AI market.
Responding to enterprise requirements for strict data control and local infrastructure, Meta reverses course to release the open-weight Muse Glimmer model.
Today, Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is publicly available. is an open, vendor-neutral standard for plugins that extend AI agents. Agent Plugins
provide reusable instructions and resources for AI agents. con
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against autonomous AI agents.